Lower Austria, which the government said was particularly hard hit, received its first aid on Tuesday, with the government providing 45 million euros from the disaster fund. Austrian parliamentary ...
Austria has responded to severe flooding by tripling its federal disaster fund to 1 billion euros. The package includes tax postponements and interest-free loans for impacted companies ...
The world was hit by so many floods and landslides in 2024 that it triggered the aid sector's first multi-disaster insurance ...
“I’m going to have to evaluate how quickly we’re burning the remaining dollars in the Disaster Relief Fund,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said Wednesday during a news ...
About 54,000 have applied for low-interest loans from a disaster fund operated by the Small Business Administration, but the money has all dried up. Biden administration officials are pressuring ...
On Oct. 2, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) doesn’t have enough funding to last through hurricane season.
The Small Business Administration’s disaster loan program has depleted its funds following two back-to-back hurricanes, the administration announced Tuesday, which will likely slow recovery ...
Organizations such as the Red Cross and the Florida Disaster Fund are raising funds to help the victims of Hurricane Helene Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...
"But we need Congress to act swiftly to fund FEMA and specifically its disaster relief fund because hurricane season is not over." Criticism of the agency was fueled when Mayorkas said earlier ...